I've spent the whole of my life helping people with big ideas turn their best ones into real-world projects. Now I'm helping young people do the same thing and build a better future.For 25 yrs my projects were in documentary film, starting off with a focus on human rights in the USSR. Selected honors included a Royal Television Society win for best documentary series, a BAFTA nomination, and a White House premiere. I then left documentaries to found a tech company with my computer scientist-husband. After a decade, I left that to found a 501(c)3 organization with my favorite professor from grad school (we just celebrated our 10th birthday as an organization).In college/grad school, it was a passion for justice that motivated me to pull together a documentary film to throw light on the human rights abuse of religious believers in the USSR. Produced in collaboration with Keston College, UK, I was the first American to film in the Soviet Union. "Candle in the Wind" was broadcast worldwide, with accompanying book.As the USSR collapsed I pulled together a PBS/BBC 4-part series on the cold war with a history professor from the University of WA and a journalist-producer from BBC that aired in 30 countries. With Andy Tobias, Jane Bryant Quinn, Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe and others I made an 8-part series on the big ideas of the world's leading investors. With former Asst. Sec. of Education Chester E. Finn, Jr. we looked at big ideas in education. With China's opening, I examined the tension between modernity and tradition with architect I.M. Pei and academics in the field.With specialists in tech and finance, I helped launched an early AI firm. We hoped to make a contribution in education but didn't land there; we did in finance. Today the NY-based company delivers the "gold standard" of sentiment data for investors.In 2014 I moved to the non-profit world to found Pando with philosophical theologian John B. Cobb Jr. Pando unites diverse higher ed institutions from across SoCal to help meet agreed upon goals for the common good -- and actually make them happen. It is a broad experiment in civic engagement that is grounded in practical outcomes and the collaborative action of young people.I've worked in profit and non-profit, and raised project funding from investors, business, foundations, private sources, and public agencies globally. I work well across the aisle.For 2 years I was a Jennings Randolph Fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace, WA, D.C.